Leeds is no stranger to innovation as proved in Holbeck Urban Village, the birthplace of the city’s Industrial Revolution, where digital SMEs are falling over themselves to display their talent and the city is bursting at the seams with young, innovative agencies winning big-name clients.

The Leeds crowd are getting down to business proving that Yorkshire can stand the test on a national level. Wolfstar was recently named as the UK’s most outstanding small PR company at this year’s CIPR awards. Meanwhile Swamp was shortlisted for the prestigious, and normally London dominated, New Media Age Effectiveness awards. And if that wasn’t enough our talent is being poached by London as Propaganda’s Mike Phillipson is making himself at home on the Habitat board of directors.

Leeds has more than 13,000 employees working in the media sector. Leeds Media, now part of Leeds York and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce, works to promote this staggering array of expertise to almost 2,500 businesses and more than 500,000 individual employees.

And it doesn’t stop there the city has a host of creative hot-spots from Round Foundry Media Centre and Design Innovation Centre offering serviced office space to rehearsal studios and independent record labels and agents such as East Street Arts and Axis supporting an array artists operating across the city.

Deborah Green, chief executive of Marketing Leeds comments, “Leeds has a reputation for producing some of the UK’s best work in the digital sector, with the city’s creative agencies ranging in size from start-ups and SMEs, to major multinationals. We also have many organisations with award winning in-house marketing teams working in finance, law and various other sectors.”